A review by vulcanthropy
The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells

adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

4.25

Didn't expect to love this as much as I did. The two Wells' I've read before (TTM and WotW) I loved, but I read them when I was at university and very easily impressed. I was curious whether I'd still enjoy Wells and anticipated finding him drier than I hoped, but he did not disappoint! This is my favourite so far. The prose are alive and his descriptions are wonderful and enthralling, the narrative is energetic, and the meditations on science, humanity, and inhumanity are endlessly fascinating to me. The influence of racist pseudoscience is an uncomfortable and unfortunately inseparable part of the fabric of the time, however.